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PresenceSc2
Profile Joined February 2011
Australia4032 Posts
December 12 2011 03:55 GMT
#601
On December 12 2011 12:52 NightOfTheDead wrote:
I think big s.storm incomming if stephano wont advance in blizzcup.


Yeh lol. If he wins this thread will blow up with "I TOLD YOU SO". And if he gets stomped it will be flooded with " I TOLD YOU SO"
Stephano//HerO//TaeJa//Squirtle//Bomber
Bagration
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
United States18282 Posts
December 12 2011 04:00 GMT
#602
This is good, everything here, the back and forth arguments over whether a player is "good" or "really great".

Why? Because it shows that people here care! We are doing exactly what sports fans do, debating whether or not Lebron is overrated, whether or not Aaron Rodgers is the best quarterback, whether or not Cristiano Ronaldo is better than Messi, etc.

It shows passion, and the loyalty that fans show to certain players. This enthusiasm will help propel SC2's growth into 2012.

As for Stephano, he's good, but let's see how he does tonight.
Team Slayers, Axiom-Acer and Vile forever
Keyboard Warrior
Profile Joined December 2011
United States1178 Posts
December 12 2011 04:08 GMT
#603
Maybe he is very good, but not #1 or extremely good. Some gamers have a run here and there sometimes
Not your regular Keyboard Warrior ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
zefreak
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
United States2731 Posts
December 12 2011 04:10 GMT
#604
On December 12 2011 13:00 Bagration wrote:
This is good, everything here, the back and forth arguments over whether a player is "good" or "really great".

Why? Because it shows that people here care! We are doing exactly what sports fans do, debating whether or not Lebron is overrated, whether or not Aaron Rodgers is the best quarterback, whether or not Cristiano Ronaldo is better than Messi, etc.

It shows passion, and the loyalty that fans show to certain players. This enthusiasm will help propel SC2's growth into 2012.

As for Stephano, he's good, but let's see how he does tonight.


It's exactly this irrational attachment to a team or individual that annoys me the most about sports. Most people's favorite team/player is totally arbitrary and a result of who they happened to watch first when they started getting involved.
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FlyingDike
Profile Joined December 2011
United States221 Posts
December 12 2011 04:15 GMT
#605
Can't wait for stephano to get smashed so I can here the lamentation of his fanboys
Executor1
Profile Joined April 2011
1353 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-12-12 04:24:10
December 12 2011 04:23 GMT
#606
Stephano is really arrogant if you havent noticed. Im pretty sure he is bs'ing about how much he actually practices.

Sure it may not be as much as some pro's, but i highly doubt he practices only 3 hours a day, just sounds like bragging to me.

"yea i practice 1/3 as much as most pro's and im still better than them"
PresenceSc2
Profile Joined February 2011
Australia4032 Posts
December 12 2011 04:24 GMT
#607
On December 12 2011 13:10 zefreak wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 12 2011 13:00 Bagration wrote:
This is good, everything here, the back and forth arguments over whether a player is "good" or "really great".

Why? Because it shows that people here care! We are doing exactly what sports fans do, debating whether or not Lebron is overrated, whether or not Aaron Rodgers is the best quarterback, whether or not Cristiano Ronaldo is better than Messi, etc.

It shows passion, and the loyalty that fans show to certain players. This enthusiasm will help propel SC2's growth into 2012.

As for Stephano, he's good, but let's see how he does tonight.


It's exactly this irrational attachment to a team or individual that annoys me the most about sports. Most people's favorite team/player is totally arbitrary and a result of who they happened to watch first when they started getting involved.


Bagration made a nice point and you turned it into a negative one. Good job.
Stephano//HerO//TaeJa//Squirtle//Bomber
Bromazepam
Profile Joined August 2011
820 Posts
December 12 2011 04:41 GMT
#608
On December 12 2011 12:55 Za7oX wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 12 2011 12:52 NightOfTheDead wrote:
I think big s.storm incomming if stephano wont advance in blizzcup.


Yeh lol. If he wins this thread will blow up with "I TOLD YOU SO". And if he gets stomped it will be flooded with " I TOLD YOU SO"


So either way someone will have told someone else something. Everybody wins!

By the way, he's the first one to say he won't do well at the BlizzCup. He's only had one week of Korean practice so far and you all should know that is not enough to start soaking in that type of training.

Also, MC and Hero are both in his group. I don't know how teamhouses manage training when three players have to be ready to kill each other...
Saying that something is killing esports is killing esports.
Raambo11
Profile Joined April 2011
United States828 Posts
December 12 2011 04:45 GMT
#609
On December 12 2011 13:23 Executor1 wrote:
Stephano is really arrogant if you havent noticed. Im pretty sure he is bs'ing about how much he actually practices.

Sure it may not be as much as some pro's, but i highly doubt he practices only 3 hours a day, just sounds like bragging to me.

"yea i practice 1/3 as much as most pro's and im still better than them"


He certainly practices a lot more now, its obvious. He even streams for more than 3 hours...
nakedsurfer
Profile Joined April 2011
Canada500 Posts
December 12 2011 05:09 GMT
#610
He's a good player no doubt but I do believe theres a big difference between gsl and ladder/foreign tournaments. I think GSL is the place to really show how good you are or aren't because you can prepare for your opponent for like a week. If anything I think this is only the beginning to see how he does
Root4Root
IPA
Profile Joined August 2010
United States3206 Posts
December 12 2011 06:28 GMT
#611
On December 12 2011 13:15 FlyingDike wrote:
Can't wait for stephano to get smashed so I can here the lamentation of his fanboys


What a pathetic, sad, and mean-spirited way to watch competition. Have fun dude.
Time held me green and dying though I sang in my chains like the sea.
kurrysauce
Profile Joined October 2010
272 Posts
December 12 2011 06:33 GMT
#612
Hopefully stephano doesn't turn into an IdrA where whenever he's in a tournament a shitstorm follows along whether its haters or fanboys.

imo stephano is a great players , comparable to the likes of sen , ret and idra. But Stephano being the BEST zerg foreigner ? I'm sorry , that's an exaggeration.
Fuchsteufelswild
Profile Joined October 2009
Australia2028 Posts
December 12 2011 06:35 GMT
#613
On December 11 2011 01:56 LiquidFahq wrote:
Sensationalist title (Yep, it's cheesy but you clicked on it!)

Maybe "Why I Think Stephano is a Really Good SC2 Player" is sensationalist by definition or not, such titles would probably normally read more like "Stephano to win Starcraft 2 Player of the Year award?" without such an award even needing to exist, the title written so that it sounds like fact when it is only there to grab your attention and supposedly to make you ponder the title's question.
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EctoMimed
Profile Joined April 2011
United States38 Posts
December 12 2011 06:36 GMT
#614
Stephano is a good player no doubt but he's been figured out and as we've seen his games are becoming less and less impressive. Results don't mean that his game play is actually that impressive.

He never feels dominant and flawless in games.

TBH though this seems like a really questionable topic to warrant its own thread...
In a 4v4 ladder match, me "hey you have a thor at 1 health exactly :o maybe you should repair it" mass thor guy "naaaaaww he's a trooper"
Fuchsteufelswild
Profile Joined October 2009
Australia2028 Posts
December 12 2011 06:36 GMT
#615
On December 12 2011 13:15 FlyingDike wrote:
Can't wait for stephano to get smashed so I can here the lamentation of his fanboys


What a pathetic, sad, and unhealthy way to spell 'hear'. I don't think TotalBiscuit would agree with your mentality either.
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DamageControL
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States4222 Posts
December 12 2011 06:41 GMT
#616
On December 12 2011 13:23 Executor1 wrote:
Stephano is really arrogant if you havent noticed. Im pretty sure he is bs'ing about how much he actually practices.

Sure it may not be as much as some pro's, but i highly doubt he practices only 3 hours a day, just sounds like bragging to me.

"yea i practice 1/3 as much as most pro's and im still better than them"

I agree, he's sort of cocky and obnoxious. And people hype him too much.

But when you get down to it, he's also good. I also disagree with the distinction between the a "Korean" and "Foreign" model. To me, there is "Practice More" and "Practice Less"
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Hydroxyl
Profile Joined December 2011
206 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-12-12 06:49:54
December 12 2011 06:42 GMT
#617
On December 12 2011 15:28 IPA wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 12 2011 13:15 FlyingDike wrote:
Can't wait for stephano to get smashed so I can here the lamentation of his fanboys


What a pathetic, sad, and mean-spirited way to watch competition. Have fun dude.


The funniest is that nobody would actually be crying, but the only reason why trolls think people would, is because it would be the only and poor compensation they could ever imagine to get for being so hard-working in their trolling.
MassacrisM
Profile Joined November 2010
United Kingdom149 Posts
December 12 2011 07:04 GMT
#618
Agreed with OP. Stephano truly has a lot of potential and is definitely my favorite Zerg atm. Nestea may be good, but he relies way too much on preparations. Stephano, on the other hand, is pure talent and will grow more than any other given he has the determination for it.
" One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision " - Bertrand Russell
Weedk
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States507 Posts
December 12 2011 07:08 GMT
#619
On December 12 2011 15:28 IPA wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 12 2011 13:15 FlyingDike wrote:
Can't wait for stephano to get smashed so I can here the lamentation of his fanboys


What a pathetic, sad, and mean-spirited way to watch competition. Have fun dude.


Obviously you haven't seen the hate on Bisu fans in BW. There seems to be two groups there. Bisu fanboys and those that feed on their tears.
Dandy_Moustachu
Profile Joined July 2010
France422 Posts
December 12 2011 07:56 GMT
#620
On December 12 2011 12:52 NightOfTheDead wrote:
I think big s.storm incomming if stephano wont advance in blizzcup.


A lot of stephano's fans doesn't believe he'll advance.

And even if he goes 4-0 in his group, haters will say it's because of the bo1
Nothing gonna change wathever his results are today.

Haters gonna hates.
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